Livelihood Restoration Plan
Farim, Guinea Bissau
The Farim Phosphate Project (currently owned by ITAFOS) is composed of a proposed open-pit phosphate mine and a product export facility. It requires the resettlement of a number of households across 5 villages.
Work undertaken:
- Significant community engagement with project-affected people (PAPs) to achieve informed participation
- Assessing existing agricultural activities and land-use potential of the affected area
- Profiling current livelihoods
- Investigating livelihood restoration and improvement opportunities guided by the international best practices including IFC PS5
- Composing a compensation framework, methodology, and rates
- Identifying and undertaking a land-use potential assessment of possible host sites
- Planning and costing livelihood restoration projects at the host site
- An implementation plan.
As a further step, an agricultural asset survey using high-precision GPS equipment was undertaken which involved:
- Setting up a data dictionary and forms for point and polygon data to be captured
- Registering full details and providing project-specific ID Cards to PAPs
- Walking field boundaries and classifying fields into compensation categories
- Downloading, cross-referencing, and generating a per beneficiary database of field sizes per compensation category
- Performing compensation calculations and generating beneficiary output sheets.
